we have studied the medicinal plants of ghasemloo and then surveyed the usagepercentage of different parts from each specimen for the medicinal or diet consumptions atthree sites from the adjacent villages of ghasemloo valley, villages of west and eastazerbaijan including 17 questioners. during two years, the medicinal plants that have beencollected and provided as herbarium specimens were reco...

Contamination of clinical specimens by Mycobacterium gordonae is a significant endemic problem in many laboratories. To investigate this problem, 84 cases at 1 hospital were retrospectively identified during 20 months. The overall rate of specimen contamination was 2. 4%, and 72 of the contaminated specimens were respiratory. A case-control comparison showed that the risk of respiratory specime...

Tuberculosis of gallbladder is an extremely rare entity even in endemic region. Pre-operative diagnosis may not be possible and most of the cases are found incidentally during histopathological examination of resected specimen of gallbladder. We are presenting a case of tuberculosis of gallbladder presenting as acalculous cholecystitis in a middle aged female patient. We conclude that each gall...

INTRODUCTION The increasing incidence of allogeneic transplants in Coccidioides-endemic areas such as the southwestern United States and Latin America highlights the importance of considering reactivation of donor coccidioidomycosis in transplant recipients. We report the case of a 42-year-old Nicaraguan woman who had multiple firm, violaceous subcutaneous nodules 1 month after her orthotopic l...

abstractchronic sialadenitis is a disease of salivary glands associated with chronic infections,systemic diseases and silolithiasis pathogenesis of the disease. primary tuberculoussubmandibulitis is not a reported disease. the diagnosis was confirmed whena 45 years old lady suspicious to submandibular gland tumor was operated on for excisionalbiopsy. histological examination of the specimen by ...

ABSTRACT.Seven of the 17 families of bats are represented on Madagascar, one of which, the Myzopodidae, is endemic to the island. Three genera, Pteropus, Emballonura and Mormopterus, occur in Madagascar and Asia but not in Africa. Two other genera found in Madagascar, Eidolon and Triaenops, do not occur in Asia but are found in Africa. Of the 28 species of Madagascar bats for which specimen rec...

AbstractChronic sialadenitis is a disease of salivary glands associated with chronic infections,systemic diseases and silolithiasis pathogenesis of the disease. Primary tuberculoussubmandibulitis is not a reported disease. The diagnosis was confirmed whena 45 years old lady suspicious to submandibular gland tumor was operated on for excisionalbiopsy. Histological examination of the specimen by ...

We document the first specimen of a dipsadid snake from the Anguilla Cays, Cay Sal Bank, The Bahamas. We analyze 3,426 base pairs (bp) of sequence data derived from five mitochondrial loci and one nuclear locus using Maximum Likelihood (ML) and Bayesian Inference (BI) methods. Our molecular data agree with some aspects of morphology (e.g., scale counts, dentition, and color pattern) supporting ...

Alloscorpiops (Laoscorpiops) calmonti subgen. n., sp. n., belonging to the family Euscorpiidae Laurie, is described on the basis of single female specimen collected in the Pathoumphone District of southern Laos. This new scorpion taxon may represent yet another endemic element for the fauna of Laos. The new subgenus is characterized by a previously unknown and possible unique trichobothrial pat...